Lead Firmware Quality Engineer
Lead Firmware Quality Engineer
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About the role:
We are looking for a Firmware Test Lead to own the quality strategy and execution for our MCUbased devices. This is a player/coach roleideal for someone who thrives being handson while also leading a small team of engineers. You will guide a team of firmware QA engineers and work in close collaboration with firmware development hardware and product teams to ensure the delivery of robust highquality embedded software.
Our devices operate in challenging environments and rely on RTOSbased firmware with complex connectivity stacks including cellular GPS BLE WiFi and CAN. Your leadership will be critical to scaling our QA infrastructure test automation and validation processes.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in our San Francisco CA office and 2 days working remotely.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software firmware and hardware you build will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds physical operations.
- You are a lifelong learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies challenges and customers that push us to learn on the go.
- You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews collaborate with customer success and product managers and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
- You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission were all racing toward our connected operations vision and we intend to wintogether.
In this role you will:
- Lead a small team of quality engineers and provide technical leadership set priorities and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Contribute directly to developing and executing test plans test automation and system validation for embedded firmware across multiple product lines.
- Partner closely with firmware developers product managers and hardware engineers to ensure test coverage and drive timely resolution of issues.
- Improve test infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and coverage reporting to accelerate release cycles.
- Serve as a quality champion throughout the development lifecycle helping to identify risks early and ensure issues are resolved prerelease.
- Build and enhance automated test frameworks HIL setups and simulation environments to increase test coverage and reduce manual effort.
- Support field validation testing log analysis and issue triage to ensure firmware reliability in realworld industrial deployments.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 6 years of experience in embedded systems or firmware testing.
- 2 years in a technical leadership or team lead role.
- Solid experience testing RTOSbased embedded systems (Zephyr FreeRTOS).
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite Jenkins) version control (Git) and test automation frameworks.
- Strong documentation communication and organizational skills.
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience with embedded C and SQL.
- Strong knowledge of cellular GPS BLE WiFi and CAN technologies and their associated test/debug practices.
- Experience working with hardware debugging tools (logic analyzers oscilloscopes protocol analyzers JLink).
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Employment Type
Full Time
